Incorrect 'The Title is missing' error?

Question

User-1021229074 posted

I'm receiving 'The title is missing' errors for pages that are actually redirects.

For example:

URL
http://www.foobar.co.uk/2004/11/10/Why+I+Agree.aspx

being redirected:

Headers:

Refresh: 0;url=http://www.foobar.co.uk/2004/11/10/why-i-agree/
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5 (x64),ASP.NET
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:14:03 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 0

Is this an incorrectly reported error?

 

Answer 1

User-1021229074 posted
Thats because it's just an example! :)

Answer 2

User-47214744 posted

the page you are showing above is not technically a redirect, it is using a Refresh technique that is commonly misused as a redirect. the thing that I would highly recommend is to NOT use that technique and instead use "real redirects", which are status code 301, 302, or 307.

Using real redirects actually give semantic information to search engines, (ie is it permanent, temporary, etc), whereas refresh does not tell them anything. It is highly recommended to use standard HTTP status codes, since using this refresh as redirect technique has in the past been associated with SPAM and might be confused.

So bottomline that is the reason why SEO Toolkit is still validating the response as a normal response, since technically the status code 200 means "OK".